From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b1850e397df49d95 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kst@aonix.com (Keith Thompson) Subject: Re: How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ? Date: 1996/12/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 207093028 sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) x-nntp-posting-host: pulsar references: <01bbf058$cbdbf980$LocalHost@jerryware> <1996Dec23.072835.1@eisner> <01bbf179$0c4361e0$9b2d5c8b@jerryware> <01bbf24c$a8db4800$b72d5c8b@jerryware> <32C2A408.53B8@watson.ibm.com> <32C78CD9.3AC9@mcs.com> followup-to: /dev/null organization: Aonix, San Diego, CA, USA newsgroups: comp.lang.ada originator: kst@pulsar Date: 1996-12-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In <32C78CD9.3AC9@mcs.com> Mike Young writes: [misinformation about leap year rules] Folks, before you post anything about leap year rules, please read the Calendar FAQ at . The rules for the Gregorian Calendar (the one we currently use) are in , section 2.2. > 2.2.1. What years are leap years? > --------------------------------- > > The Gregorian calendar has 97 leap years every 400 years: > > Every year divisible by 4 is a leap year. > However, every year divisible by 100 is not a leap year. > However, every year divisible by 400 is a leap year after all. > > So, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, and 2200 are not leap years. But 1600, > 2000, and 2400 are leap years. [...] A 4000-year rule has been proposed but not officially adopted. (Which reminds me -- I need to pick up some Purina Peeve Chow. 8-)}) (Warning: I've redirected followups to /dev/null. If you really feel you have something relevant to add, you'll need to edit the Newsgroups: header.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@aonix.com <*> TeleSo^H^H^H^H^H^H Alsy^H^H^H^H Thomson Softw^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Aonix 10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 300, San Diego, CA, USA, 92121-2706 "SPOON!" -- The Tick